“All Orientals Look the Same”

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf1o9q_all-orientals-look-the-same_shortfilms
“All Orientals Look the Same”

By Valerie Soe

Helen Lee

http://www.ubu.com/film/lee_sally.html

Sally’s Beauty Spot
Helen Lee (1990)

An experimental film about racial identification. The alienation of the mind from the body, which many racialized subjects go through, is fragmenting and almost traumatizing at first, but increasingly she/he has opportunities to become aware of her/his double consciousness. When does resisting the body end and re-imagining the body begin?
Bio from UBUWEB:

http://www.ubu.com/film/lee.html

James T. Hong

Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is
James T. Hong (1999)

A bio and interview with James T. Hong:

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/10/film/james-t-hong-with-penny-lane

Reimagining the Motherland: Through Experimental Documentary

http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/faculty/bourdier/trinh/TTMHFilmSV001.htm

Sur Name Viet Given Name Nam by Trinh T. Minh-ha (1989)
This experimental documentary explores the meanings of performing memory, history, and “truth.” Also following in the tradition of Third Cinema, this open-ended film poses critical questions regarding the politics of remembering and storytelling, reality and fiction as it pertains to the formation of identities, and problematic features of existing documentary film practices.

In the Tradition of Third Cinema

The Fall of the I-Hotel by Curtis Choy (1983)

Following in the tradition of Third Cinema, this documentary on the experience of Filipino Americans, reveals not only the general history of racial discrimination suffered by Filipino immigrants situated in the U.S. but also the critical historical moments in which direct actions were taken by Filipino Americans in order to resist and mobilize against political as well as symbolic violence.

For more info:

http://www.chonkmoonhunter.com/The_Fall_of_the_I-Hotel.html